Abby Wood
Voters Use Campaign Finance Transparency and Compliance Information
Political Behavior, 2022

Study 1 codebook


**** FOR FIGURE 1, data = figure1_df.RData

All variables are answers to the question "when you think about the strength of a candidate for elected office, how important to you are the following considerations?"  All of the following have answers as follows:  1 = very important, 2 = important,  3 = moderately important, 4 = of little importance, 5 = unimportant, 6 = NA (did not answer)

imp.cmoney - money raised by the campaign
imp.gmoney - money raised by independent groups
imp.disc - funding information provided by candidate
imp.pers - candidate's persuasiveness in public
imp.prof - candidate's grasp of issues
imp.grasp - candidate's professional



**** FOR STUDY 1, data = full_replication_data_s1.RData, 
with robustness checks on no_extremes_replication_data_s1.RData, 
which has the same variables

jfav = johnson favorability (0-100, NA = not answered)
cfav = conley favorability (0-100, NA = not answered)
netfav = johnson - conley favorability (-100 - 100, NA = not answered)
jvote = likelihood of voting for johnson (0-100, NA = not answered)
cvote = likelihood of voting for conley (0-100, NA = not answered)
netvote = jvote - cvote (-100 - 100, NA = not answered)
jtrust = johnson trustworthiness (0-100, NA = not answered)
ctrust = conley trustworthiness (0-100, NA = not answered)
nettrust = jtrust - ctrust (-100 - 100, NA = not answered)


tr takes four values -- recall that Conley will only be more moderate than respondent if respondent is a 10 (or 9 in the +/- 20 condition)
 1 = conley +/- 10pp of respondent's ideology, control group
 2 = conley +/- 20pp of respondent's ideology, control group
 3 = conley +/- 10pp of respondent's ideology, treatment group
 4 = conley +/- 20pp of respondent's ideology, treatment group
       CC15_350 = party
 1 = independent
 2 = democratic
 3 = republican


gender
1 = Male
2 = Female

educ
1 = No HS
2 = High school graduate
3 = Some college
4 = 2-year
5 = 4-year
6 = Post-grad

birthyr
Birth year


 USC450 = self-identified ideology - how [conservative/liberal] are you?
 (1-10 in response to how conservative/liberal one is,
 where "conservative" or "liberal" is populated into the question using
 respondent's party ID or ideology, and only true independents
 with party ID of independent AND 4 on 7 point ideology scale
 are randomized into either the "how conservative" or "how liberal"
 version of the question.)


 CC15_340a = 7 point ideology, where
 1 = extremely liberal,
 2 = liberal
 3 = somewhat liberal
 4 = moderate
 5 = somewhat conservative
 6 = conservative
 7 = extremely conservative, 


CC15_310a Knowledge question: Party majority, U.S. House of Representatives
1 = Republicans
2 = Democrats
3 = Neither
4 = Not Sure
8 = Skipped


CC15_310b Knowledge question: Party majority, U.S. Senate
1 = Republicans
2 = Democrats
3 = Neither
4 = Not Sure
8 = Skipped


Race
 1 = white
 2 = black
 3 = hispanic
 4 = asian
 5 = native american
 6 = mixed
 7 = other
 8 = middle eastern
 98 = skipped
 99 = not asked
 

newsint
Some people seem to follow what's going on in government and public affairs most of the time, whether there's an election going on or not. Others aren't that interested. Would you say you follow what's going on in government and public affairs ...

1 = Most of the time
2 = Some of the time
3 = Only now and then
4 = Hardly at all
7 = Don't know

